Abstract: Sea-level histories are reconstructed from sequences of coastal sediment using standard methods of sedimentology and stratigraphy. Sediment is sampled with hand-operated gouge corers, chamber corers, and piston corers and less commonly with engine-driven vibracorers and geoslicers. But coastal sediment is most accurately mapped and interpreted in exposures. Use the Tröels-Smith system and standard soil methods to describe coastal sediment. Field data are most effectively compiled, compared, and synthesized into lithofacies models from which sea-level histories are inferred using photo-data-mosaics of cores and exposures. Notebooks and cameras remain the data recording tools of choice, but computer tablets are rapidly replacing paper-based methods.
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-02-17
Language: en
Type: other
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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